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The 20th Century witnessed the rise of nationalism. Government started to justify many of its actions, unimaginable before, as for the good of the nation. The government played a deeper role in people’s personal life, probing and examining every minute det ....

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.... and free. The poem carries a voice of very ironic tone, sometimes become sarcasm. The speaker describes the man as a “model citizen” who “in a modern sense of an old-fashioned word” is “a saint.” When asked if the man “was free and happy”, the speaker responds that “the question is absurd, had anything been wrong” he “should certainly has heard.” The irony of the situation is that the very action of probing into the man’s personal life by the official that is absurd. The confidence of the official that he has known everything about the man’s life is a false one. ....